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A university's perspective, but here's what flexible teaching and learning might include.  Lots of overlap with technology.

Lessons from Finland on the professionalization of teaching, lessons from Teach For America on its de-professionalization.

A powerpoint that poses good questions about flexibility in teaching and learning.  Like all good powerpoints, it's mostly pictures and few words - too bad in this case, because I'd love to hear what the presentation was about.

"As school boards address the overall challenge of social media use within schools, they should focus on the reality that the impact no longer lies only on the individual and local schools. Social networks include students and teachers all over the world and, therefore, teaching and coaching on digital literacy for teachers and students is where the focus should rest. Knowing how to build successful communities of learning and how to integrate social connectivity within a learning environment is a much more needed outcome than finding a way to control and monitor specific users and content."

The Long Beach, Calif., school district has adopted a training system in which classroom teachers work collaboratively to improve teaching and learning, a shift from outsourcing professional development. 

The blog of "Shelley Wright, who beautifully blogged her journey from stand-and-deliver teaching at the front of the classroom to an inquiry-based, technology-rich approach that found her learning along with her students," according to Will Richardson.

A nice opinion piece on teacher rating systems in today's NYT

Beyond differentiation: blended learning to use technology for learning. New teaching environment.

Great TEDtalk on use of design thinking in a rural North Carolina school, with students at the creative center.

Great synopsis of Brain Based Education and the research that informs it.

According to TLE team member Owen Milne, this site is "the go-to for understanding the ongoing relationship between pedagogy-space-technology as it relates to designing and managing active learning environments."

Link to annual conference of NESSC called "High School Redesign in Action."

Background/Context: Though change is constant in organizations, determining how to successfully implement planned change has been a perennial challenge for both organizational scholars and practitioners. While the empirical knowledge base on planned change in schools and other organizations offers numerous insights, the inattention to activity, or the practice of leading and managing change, remains. Organizational change theory, and specifically organizational routines, offers a useful lens with which to examine planned change in work practice in schools. The purpose of this study is to understand the role organizational routines play in changing school work practice.

TED talk on how to make science fun to learn